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  • Shadow Horseby Alison Hart

    Random House Children''s Books 2010; US$ 7.99

    Thirteen-year-old foster kid Jasmine Schuler is immediately drawn to the scrawny, broken-looking brown gelding huddled in the corner of an auction house stall. Feeling a kinship with the lonely animal, Jas convinces her new foster mom, who rescues and rehabilitates abused horses on her Virginia farm, to buy him. Slowly, the horse Jas names Shadow begins to blossom and even to thrive. But when Jas uncovers a startling clue to Shadow's true identity, she becomes entangled in a mystery which could have serious consequences for the two of them.  Both the heartwarming story of a young girl's love for her horse and an intriguing mystery, this inspiring middle-grade novel will appeal to horse lovers and mystery fans alike. From the Hardcover... more...

  • The Angel Experimentby James Patterson

    Little, Brown 2005; US$ 8.99

    Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the... more...

  • Skeleton Keyby Anthony Horowitz

    Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 8.99

    Working as a secret agent for Britain?s most exclusive agency, Alex Rider has seen it all. He?s been shot at by international terrorists, stood face-to-face with pure evil, and saved the world?twice. But fifteen-year-old Alex is about to face something more dangerous than he can imagine: A man who?s lost everything he cared for?his country, his son?a man who has a nuclear weapon, and will stop at nothing to get his world back. Unless Alex can stop him first... more...

  • A to Z Mysteries: The Invisible Islandby John Steven Gurney; Ron Roy

    Random House Children''s Books 2009; US$ 3.99

    While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money. more...

  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerby E.L. Konigsburg; E.L. Konigsburg

    Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2010; US$ 5.99

    When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts,... more...

  • The Secret of Zoomby Lynne Jonell

    Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) 2009; US$ 7.99

    Christina lives in an old stone mansion on the edge of a forest surrounded by barbed wire and signs that read TRESPASSERSWILL BE BOILED. Deep within the forest is the laboratory where her father works—and where her mother was blown to bits years ago. Christina is not supposed to talk to the orphans down the road. But when an orphan boy named Taft tells her of a secret tunnel, she finds it and helps him escape. Soon she and Taft discover there is far more to the orphanage and the mystery of her mother’s supposed death than they ever suspected. more...

  • Vanished Books Three & Fourby Meg Cabot

    Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99

    Ever since Jess was struck by lightning, she’s had the power to find missing people. And everyone wants a piece of her powers.... In Safe House , Jess and her psychic abilities are being blamed for the murder of Amber, a beloved cheerleader. But when more cheerleaders start disappearing, Jess may be able to save her reputation by finding the murderer—before it’s too late. In Sanctuary , the government has always been after Jess for her abilities, but working for the enemy becomes inevitable as Jess tries to track down a local boy who is linked to a militia group. Now with the FBI supposedly on her side, Jess isn’t sure whom to trust and whom to run from.... Originally published in 2001 as 1-800-Where-R-You , this... more...

  • Guys Read: Boys Will Be Boysby James Patterson

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 0.99

    A train ride home from a school field trip turns sinister when two kids spot a body on the tracks. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller , edited by Jon Scieszka. more...

  • Thirteen Reasons Whyby Jay Asher

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker?his classmate and crush?who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he?ll find out how he made the list. This is a desperate, heartbreaking, yet ultimately hopeful novel. more...

  • Dead End in Norveltby Jack Gantos

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) 2011; US$ 9.99

    Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!   Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian... more...